There are many unsolved cases in the history of the Ming Dynasty, such as the "Strike Case", "Red Pill Case" and "Palace Transfer Case" in the late Ming Dynasty, and the mysterious disappearance of Zhu Yunjiao, the Jianwen Emperor in the early Ming Dynasty. Many historians are curious about the whereabouts of Zhu Yunjiao, in fact, in that historical background, Zhu Yunjiao can only be a fierce and auspicious person, and his fate is not as good as that of a minister who was executed by Zhu Yuanzhang's order.
The creed of the feudal era was that "the king must die and the subject must die", and if the subject wants to escape the king's sword, it seems that there is only one way left - rebellion. But what we want to talk about today is an exception, when the Hu Weiyong case occurred, the minister Yang Jing was involved, Zhu Yuanzhang thought he killed him, but unexpectedly, 19 years after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Yang Jing magically "resurrected".
Yang Jing is a native of Anhui, and can be regarded as half of Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown, and when Zhu Yuanzhang fought the world, Yang Jing contributed a lot. According to the "History of Ming", after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Jing also followed Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and others to pacify Shanxi, at that time, although Yang Jing was not the commander, he was also ranked ahead of Fu Youde, Liao Yongzhong and others, which showed his extraordinary strength.
However, we all know that Zhu Yuanzhang killed many heroes during his reign, and the case of Hu Weiyong alone involved more than 30,000 people, including more than 20 heroes, and Yang Jing was also among them. However, when Zhu Yuanzhang died, Zhu Yunjiao took the throne to "cut the domain", and when Zhu Di was dissatisfied with his nephew and his nephew was fighting for the throne, Yang Jing suddenly appeared in the Yan army camp as a "hundred household order", shocking the jaws of countless people.
Two people with the same name and surname, even their hometown is the same, only the age difference is 8 years. The original Yang Jing "died" as the Marquis of Yongzhou Yingyang, who was stationed in the north; later this Yang Jing gave birth to a son in 1381, named Yang Zongdao, it just so happens that in the original Yang Jing's clan ranking, when it was his son's turn, the word used was also "Zong".
What is even more suspicious is that the identity of Yang Jing in the back is only a hundred household order, but Zhu Di actually let him bring 20,000 horses; in the last year of the Battle of Jingnan, Yang Jing was killed in the Battle of Lingbi and Zhu Di took the throne, and posthumously named him the "Duke of Jingguo". This kind of posthumous honor does not look like a "hundred household order" should be obtained, so most scholars believe that Yang Jing's identity is abnormal.
The only explanation is that Yang Jing had defected to Zhu Di, the King of Yan, who managed to help Yang Jing die and escaped the disaster, and in order to show his gratitude to the King of Yan, Yang Jing participated in the war that turned the course of the Ming Dynasty's history. After examination, it was found that the Yang surname and the Ouyang surname in Qiyang, Yangcundian and other places in Hunan province preserved the family tree, which clearly recorded that the ancestor was the Ming Dynasty general Yang Jing.
And the genealogy states that Yang Jing's sons Yang Zongde and Yang Zongfu were protected by the matriarch in that disaster, and settled in Hunan under the Xiang River in anonymity, and in order to commemorate their ancestors, they enshrined the statue of General Yang in the ancestral hall. All this fully shows that Yang Jing fled from under Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, and Zhu Yuanzhang probably never imagined that his son would dare to help the "rebel minister."
After Yang Jingzhan's death, Zhu Di treated his son Yang Zongdao kindly, and Yang Zongdao, after his father's death, first started from Yongping Wei Qianhu, and in the eighth year of Yongle (1410), he followed Zhu Di's personal conquest, was rewarded for his meritorious service, and was ordered by Zhu Di to "keep his name for promotion", and later achieved the post of governor. It can be seen that history is really like a drama, and such a drama as "fraudulent death" has really been staged in history, which is amazing!